By Tanya Golash-Boza, Professor, University of California, Merced. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is pushing for stricter sentencing in criminal cases. AP Photo/Frank Franklin II Today, the United States is a world leader in incarceration, but...

Vice President Mike Pence is about to embark on a cross-country summer campaign tour just weeks after filing paperwork to establish his own campaign committee. He has claimed it is just about fundraising for loyal Republican candidates in 2018...

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough lambasted President Donald Trump’s overseas trip as an utter failure and an embarrassment to the United States. The “Morning Joe” host was disturbed by the carelessness Trump showed toward hard-won...

Gut Check is a periodic look at health claims made by studies, newsmakers, or conventional wisdom. We ask: Should you believe this? The claim: Living in a city makes people develop schizophrenia. Tell me more: The claim is not quite that stark,...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday asserted that the Russian government must be “laughing” about the news coverage surrounding the massive scandal that’s engulfing his administration. “Russian officials must be laughing at...

U.S. President Donald Trump criticised Germany on Tuesday for its trade surplus and military spending levels, a day after Chancellor Angela Merkel rammed home her doubts about the reliability of the United States as an ally. “We have a...

Russian government officials were overheard talking about potentially “derogatory” information about Donald Trump in conversations intercepted by U.S. intelligence agents during the presidential election campaign, according to a new...

Jury selection is set to begin on Tuesday in the retrial of a former University of Cincinnati police officer charged with murdering an unarmed black motorist, after the first trial ended in a mistrial. Body-camera video of the July 2015 incident...

Donald Trump came back from his first overseas presidential trip to yet another political firestorm. This one’s focused on his son-in-law and special adviser, Jared Kushner. Kushner is widely reported to have become a focus of the FBI...

The Great Barrier Reef, a 1,400-mile World Heritage Site along Australia’s east coast, is in trouble, and that trouble is growing to proportions that might soon become impossible to alleviate. The colorful corals that make the site an attractive...

Timeline Of Golf Legend Tiger Woods’ Legal Troubles Golf legend Tiger Woods was arrested by police on a DUI (Driving Under Influence) charge Monday morning near his home in Jupiter, Florida, media reports said. He was transported to Palm...

Under the supervision Kim Jong Un, North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile off its east coast Monday morning. The North Korean supremo also ordered the development of more powerful strategic weapons, official KCNA news agency reported...

NASA is set to make a big announcement about its mission to “touch the sun”—its first attempt at flying directly into the sun’s atmosphere, where the spacecraft will face unprecedented radiation levels and temperatures of up to 1,400 degrees...

Chuck Woolery, the well-coiffed former Wheel of Fortune and Love Connection host, has recently complained that his right-wing views have prevented him from finding work in Hollywood. His foray, via Twitter, into the complex relationship between...

With all eyes on President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner amid allegations that he attempted to establish an unorthodox back-channel with Russians during the presidential transition, a Wall Street Journal report reveals just how...